May 4th, 2013

While it is always important to maintain a diversified portfolio, it is especially vital to remain diversified during volatile market conditions.
As an investor, you should be careful not to get caught up in any panic selling and should maintain your focus on long-term goals.

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It probably doesn’t show up on your calendar, but May is Disability Insurance Awareness Month. And you might agree that such a month is useful, when you consider the following:
• Three in 10 workers entering the workforce today will become disabled before retiring, according to the Social Security Administration.

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Question: I started investing about 10 years ago. I feel like it’s just been one disaster after another. None of my investments have done well for long. I make changes based on what I read, but that doesn’t seem to help. I know I am doing something wrong, I just don’t know what it is. So what am I doing wrong?

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Ribbon cutting ceremonies were held May 2 for Ruston Family Medicine Center, located at 206 East Reynolds Drive, Suite C-3 and K, in Ruston. Ruston Family Medicine Center is the offices of Drs. Janice Ford, Dan Thompson and Stacy Conville. The ribbon cutting was sponsored by the Ruston-Lincoln Chamber of Commerce.

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It’s still several months before Louisiana Tech University becomes officially affiliated with Conference USA.
But even now, members of Bulldog Nation should be excited for what awaits them when the 2013-14 school year kicks off.

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Junior catcher/pitcher Austin McNeill will be one of the Cedar Creek High starters in Monday’s 5 p.m. Class 1A Louisiana High School Athletic Association quarterfinal round playoff game at Monroe Ouachita Christian (29-5). McNeill had a game-winning, two-out single in the bottom of the sixth inning to lift the Cougars (22-9) to a 9-8 regional round victory over Ville Platte Sacred Heart earlier this week.

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Senior Garrett Patterson will be trying to make some key contributions for Ruston High (30-5) in its Class 5A Louisiana High School Athletic Association regional round home playoff game against Sulphur (23-11) on Monday starting at 5 p.m. Patterson had a single and triple in the Bearcats’ 10-0 bi-district round home victory over Slidell Northshore High earlier this week.

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SEATTLE — Louisiana Tech University made sure this weekend that it would be participating in the 2013 Western Athletic Conference softball tournament that will be held at the Lady Techsters’ Complex starting on Wednesday.
The Lady Techsters (26-24, 11-10) captured wins of 4-3 and 7-3 on Friday and then was a 6-5 come-from-behind winner on Saturday against Seattle University (20-33, 8-13).
With the wins, Tech clinches a berth in the league tournament.
Kristen Miles had a sacrifice fly in the seventh inning to bring in the decisive run in Saturday’s game after trailing earlier.

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For Brad Laird and Ruston High School’s football squad, the wait is over on Monday.
That’s when the former Bearcat star makes his first on-the-field a Laird, who quarterbacked RHS to a Class 4A Louisiana High School Athletic Association state title in 1990, will be sending approximately 100 Bearcats out for their first session of spring drills at 2:30 p.m.

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